KIM LAW - Manager of Projects

We are pleased to announce that, effective the 1st of March, Kim Law will assume the position of Manager of Projects. As Manager of Projects, Kim will be responsible for ensuring that all projects:

• Come in on Schedule and on Budget
• Follow Fransen’s project management procedures
• Comply with our Client’s project management procedures

The appointment of Kim to the role of Manager of Projects represents a big step in ensuring the overall quality and consistency of our service. As this is a new position at Fransen, it will take at least a few months to get everything in place and the details worked out. I know that everyone will give Kim their full support during this transition.


GORDON PENROSE -Manager of Automation

We are pleased to announce that, effective the 1st of March, Gordon Penrose will assume the position of Manager of Automation. After 5 years in the role, Mark Lafferty has decided to focus on technical work and pass the reigns of the department on to Gordon, who is busy updating plans for the future of the Automation group.

PHILIP WAGGETT & DARREN BROWN - New Team Leaders

Congratulations also goes out to Darren Brown who will be filling the role of Team Leader for the Albian Extraction team vacated by Kim Law and Philip Waggett who has been appointed the Team Lead for all Spectra work.

Fransen Engineering has recently acquired EPI Consultants, providers of high level strategic services that specialize in process and environmental studies for heavy industrial clients. We are pleased to announce that EPI’s principal, Randy Wunderlich, P. Eng., will fill a leadership role within our newly formed Strategic Services group.

Fransen’s Strategic Services group identifies high-impact opportunities that often require minimal capital investment. In this way we enable our clients to get more output and quality out of their complex industrial facilities for less cost, health and safety risk, and environmental impact.

The priorities of many of our clients have changed due to the current financial climate. After years of focusing on expanding production, many of our clients now have more time to review the performance of their processes. In many cases, it is no longer operating under the conditions for which it was designed and is not tuned for best response. (more…)

DID YOU KNOW?
Most of British Columbia, especially Vancouver Island and the south-western portion, is in within an active seismic zone, therefore many structural projects that we do involve seismic design. Our Structural Group is able to tackle these seismic concerns under the leadership of our Structural Manager, Raymond Tong, who himself has a Master’s degree in Seismic Engineering.  (more…)

With present technology, Tailings Ponds are a necessary by-product of Oilsands mining. Tailings ponds contain a finite volume and therefore a complex management strategy is required to ensure that they do not become full before the next pond is available. Over the past few years, public pressure to reduce the impact of tailings ponds has resulted in new directives being passed by the Energy and Resource Conservation Board (ERCB) regarding the design, operation, and reclamation of tailings ponds. We have been working with our clients to assist them with projects to address not only the short term needs of maintaining sufficient capacity in the pond, but also the longer term needs of installing the assets to properly manage the ponds through to reclamation. (more…)